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Anonymous · original post · 2026-07-17 09:58:56

>>24022
>You can't afford it, you're too poor. They go for like $50
so it's like a mid-range LED's price?

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-17 11:18:33

They havent made light bulbs that produce actual light in at least two decades. I cant take it its a concerted effort to remove all light everywhere and give us fake LED light

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the explainer · reply · 2026-07-17 11:23:28

>>23962
I've been looking for a good bulb, this seems like pretty perfect, but the most important number is the CRI, it needs to be 95+ otherwise everything is going to look grey like anyone taking a picture in indonesia

>>23964
you are retarded, 18W LED is equivalent to a 100W incandescent bulb which was the only bulb that could on its own provide enough light for the whole room

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the explainer · reply · 2026-07-17 11:26:50

>>23972
>Nanlite PavoBulb 10C RGBWW

I got an RGB bulb from amazon once and returned it, white performance sucked, it was too dim, and had shitty CRI

this bulb seems much nicer, however, RGB is retarded, i toyed around with it for 10 minutes, and had no usecase, i actually ended up prefering the mixed RGB warm white instead of the native white

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the explainer · reply · 2026-07-17 11:29:35

>>23985
>>23987
14W is equivalent to 100W that's true can confirm i got 14W bulbs at home and they are as bright as 100W incandescent used to be

so 18W LED must be insanely bright like 120W equivalent

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the explainer · reply · 2026-07-17 11:31:50

>>24066
high CRI will make everything look correct, low CRI will make everything look like a picture taken in indonesia
>>24042
for a big center ceiling light this is same as 100W equivalent bulb

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the explainer · reply · 2026-07-17 11:34:45

>>24070
incandescent are by nature 100 CRI retard, and LED flicker is when you buy shitty LED powered by PWM, some shitty PWM will be low enough for you to notice

all OLED screens are shitty flickering PWM, it was really shitty in the past, now they flicker faster so less noticeable

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-17 11:36:45

>>24022
> announces to the world he's a retard who overpaid for traffic light bulbs
Not everyone is a child like you. Some of us bought the bulbs back when the incandescent ban was being discussed. They suck for home use. They were only created because electricity was cheaper than union labor changing the bulbs more often.

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the explainer · reply · 2026-07-17 11:39:33

>>24108
>>24106
PWM is the dumbest way to control lights, it causes the on off flicker, better but more expensive way to control is voltage/current

i have better eyes than many so i can see flicker especially in my periphery, this is why i bought 5 Christmas light sets and returned 4 that flickered

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-17 11:42:07

>>24091
You can make a Nernst lamp. It's just a piece of ziconium oxide rod with heat-resistant wires on each end. You have to pre-heat it somehow so it conducts, and it needs a ballast, but other than that, it's incandescent, and since it's already an oxide, it can't "burn out".

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-17 11:54:11

>>24081
>>24086
Mine automatically go down to 2500K at night to help me fall asleep easier. But during daytime I love the 6500K.

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-17 11:54:32

>>24007
Get out of here. You don't belong.

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-17 13:06:29

Reminder to use multiple light sources and not just overhead lights.

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-17 14:19:04

>>24103
you got a source on that, sweety

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-17 15:05:40

>>23965
>ballasts
do you live out of your cubicle? No residential structure will have 3 phase line power

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-17 15:16:57

>>24109
Please reduce this gif under 1MB.

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-17 15:21:05

>>24101
>t.

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-17 15:22:14

>>23962
Warm greetings to all /g/ besties :-D

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-17 15:22:51

>>24127
why

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-17 15:23:44

>>24007
you have trouble finding her assets sans illumination?

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-17 15:29:54

>>24130
I want to post this on a phpBB Forum where file size limit is 1MB.

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-17 15:31:25

>>24132
https://ezgif.com/

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-17 15:40:32

>>24132
what forum

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-17 16:07:00

for those who like it warm
warm as the depths of hell
>>24089 join us brother


>>24025
seeing one of these blew my mother's mind

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-17 16:08:22

>>24134
Axis History Forum. Was thinking about posting it in the 'More Jokes' thread in its lounge section.

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-17 17:04:56

>>24118
i never said incandescent bulbs have 90 cri

anyway most LEDs are dogshit and hard flicker or have way under 90 r9 cri

at least incandescents dont hard flicker even though they do flicker on ac

how come (((they))) get mad when you use real lightbulbs. like im sorry bro i just like melatonin

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-17 18:31:12

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-17 19:21:00

>>24120
>i have better eyes than many so i can see flicker especially in my periphery,
> i bought 5 Christmas light sets and returned 4 that flickered

So average? Christmas lights flicker for the majority of the population. But people tolerate it for $3 strings of lights. Also you have a deteriorating neutral somewhere in your house's electrical

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-17 19:22:23

>>24124
one warm lamp in the corner gang will murder you

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-17 19:29:06

I have yujileds but went back to incandescent because everything sucks
only the sun and firelight are decent light sources at the end of the day, you may as well keep your eyes closed and rely on your other senses without access to them

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-18 01:42:28

>>24126
What? Why would a fluorescent light ballast need three-phase power?

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-18 10:16:45

>>23963
4000k

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-18 10:21:30

>>24009
I used to be like him too

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-18 14:13:35

How can I check if my led lamps are flickering? I just use regular e27 leds. Even a huge 60w one with a diffuser

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-18 14:38:28

>>24145
Use a camera and set the shutter speed to be fast

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-18 14:45:35

>>23962
>illumination ritual

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-18 14:46:11

>>24145
Did they cost $30+?

If not then they're probably flickering.

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-18 14:58:33

>>24114
>18W LED is equivalent to a 100W incandescent bulb
>>24065
>18w LED is perfect and almost barely enough. it’s like a 60 watt old school bulb I would say. NTA

lol what the fuck is this clown world? 18W is what my R7s lamp uses with a LED bulb, as a replacement for a 200W halogen bulb. A 60W replacement LED bulb would be something like 5-6 watts at most, unless the bulbs are purposefully overdriven to burn out faster.

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-18 15:04:05

>>24042
>My fucking god, cunt, are you lighting a modeling studio?

Ceiling lights used to take 3-5 120W incandescent, my 300W room lamp used 5000 lumen halogen bulbs. Trying to light a normal room with 1600lm only would leave the entire place too dim.

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-18 15:09:18

>>24150
Most people will prefer more bulbs with less lumens.

IE, 2-3x 800-1200 lumen bulbs instead of 1-2 1600 lumen bulbs.


Lighting any room from a single bulb is dumb anyway.

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-18 18:31:13

>>23979
>bulb dies
>buy new bulb (cheap)
>integrated fixture dies
>have to replace the entire fixture (not cheap)

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-18 18:40:09

>>24025
Imagine seeing something cool like this, and being an underage redditor faggot like >>24048 who just sharts out outdated /b/ drivel. People who knew a world before the iphone remember underglow being cool as shit.

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-18 18:53:48

>>24004
Fine if you're under 25 and live in an apartment.

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-18 18:54:17

>>24040
Based. I built this 1000W (4x250W) IR heat cannon. Does wonders to your mitochondria in the winter and doubles as circadian activator (online spec sheets say over 2000 lumen per bulb).
The construction and grill is for safety since I read some reports of heat bulbs exploding if touched or touched with greasy hands, but on second thought it doesn't really feel that necessary. At its simplest it's just a few ceramic sockets screwed into a wooden plank.

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-18 23:14:20

>>24155
Nice one.

>The construction and grill is for safety since I read some reports of heat bulbs exploding if touched or touched with greasy hands, but on second thought it doesn't really feel that necessary. At its simplest it's just a few ceramic sockets screwed into a wooden plank.

Oh, it's very important. Grease will heat up faster and at those 200+ Celsius temperatures non-uniform heating puts a ton of stress on the surface of the bulb. Which form cracks. The protective glass on my reading lamp cracked too, probably because I kept touching it.

Halogen bulbs also run at several hundred degrees (Celsius!), so if they explode, the grill can help prevent, at least partially, any shards flying around.

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-19 05:09:24

>>24154
28 and bought my first home

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-19 07:41:12

>>24004
I like em. Mine fell off recently though so I need to actually get down there and fix it for real this time. Defused LEDs are way better than bare though.

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-19 07:58:10

>>24158
oh yeah, I'd get a cob strip for sure and just a adjustable white light strip, no need for rgbww

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-19 08:02:16

>>24140
A lamp in the corner is usually better than a single ceiling lamp in the middle of the room.
The light gets diffused as it bounces off the wall, making everything evenly lit with no sharp shadows under objects.

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-19 08:46:42

>>23971
Pls link your code

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